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Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [10 Jan., 1917. 



BEE-KEEPING IN VICTORIA. 



By F. li. Beuhne, Government Apicultiirist. 



XXVI. THE HONEY FLORA OF VICTORIA. 



Continued from page 693, Vol. XIV. (10th Xovember, 1916). 



The Coast Banksia (Banksia integrifolia.) 



Fig. 57. 



There are over forty species of Banksia, but five only occur as natives 

 in Victoria, of which the Coast Banksia is the largest, developing some- 

 times into a tree 40 to 50 feet liigli, with a trunk diameter up to 4 feet. 



It is commonly known as Honeysuckle, Tree-Honeysuckle, and most ap- 

 propriately as Coast Honeysuckle, on account of the situations it fre- 

 quents. It is also called White Honeysuckle to distinguish it from Red 

 Honeysuckle (Banksia serrata), the timber of which is far redder. The 

 botanical name of this group, " Banksia," is in honour of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, who, for long, was president of the Royal Society of London, 



